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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyugi",
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        "legal_name": "Augostinho Neto Oyugi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I have listened to a lot of medical language today and I appreciate the gentlemen. However, they must appreciate what is legal and what is medical. What we are talking about in terms of emergency healthcare is legal. Article 43(2) of the Constitution is very express that emergency medical treatment shall be accorded. You cannot put a condition in the manner you are trying to do in Clause 7(2) by subjecting this right to progressive realisation as per the provisions of Clause 54(2). That cannot happen. It is not the business of a patient to see who is being compensated and how. A patient’s business is that the right to emergency medical treatment is a constitutional right, which must be guaranteed. How you provide for it is not by negating the right as the Bill seeks to do. The third thing I would like to speak to is the constant use of the word “progressive” in this Bill; progressive realisation of the right to health, progressive realisation of economic social The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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